This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong readers now get 50% off their first year of subscription until September 21, 2025. Hong Kong will issue a No 8 typhoon signal at 9.20pm on Sunday, as Tropical Cyclone Tapah is…
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong readers now get 50% off their first year of subscription until September 21, 2025. Some after-school classes and ferry services have been suspended in Hong Kong after the Observatory issued the No…
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This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. New users who download our updated app get a seven-day free trial. The Hong Kong Observatory will issue the No 1 typhoon signal at 10.20pm on Saturday night, with higher warnings possible on Sunday…
The body of a 38-year-old expatriate who went missing on Tuesday while canoeing in the sea off Sai Kung has been found, Hong Kong police have confirmed. The force received a report on Friday at 7.54am from a boater who saw a body floating in the water about 500 metres (1,640 feet) away from Sai…
The stock market rallied on the latest inflation report. The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Tuesday, while the Nasdaq rose over 1% and the Dow spiked nearly 500 points. The benchmark S&P 500 is up almost 10% year-to-date. Here’s where US indexes stood at the 4 p.m. ET closing bell on Tuesday:…
A tourist from the Philippines was killed in Hong Kong on Tuesday after an elderly cabby lost control of his vehicle and mounted the pavement at a hotel taxi rank. Police received a report at 1.52pm that a man had been struck by a taxi that veered onto the pavement at 8 Yeung Uk Road…
An elderly man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a bus driver after a dispute on a double-decker vehicle. A police spokesman said on Tuesday that the force had received a report the day before in which a 25-year-old driver accused a passenger of physically assaulting him on Argyle Street, Kowloon City. “During the scuffle,…
Hong Kong’s Pok Fu Lam neighbourhood was hit by heavy downpours in the early hours of Tuesday, with rainwater flooding a major thoroughfare and a public hospital, once forcing it to divert patients to other institutions. The Hospital Authority said on Tuesday the severe flooding on some roads within the Queen Mary Hospital compound had…
Hong Kong police are investigating the discovery of a headless, dismembered body in the city’s upscale Mid-Levels neighbourhood during a severe rainstorm. The force said that it received a report at 7.05am on Tuesday from a passerby who claimed to have spotted a “human-shaped object” near 45 Kennedy Road. The body, found under a tree,…